Kolkata: Trinamool MLA Khagendra Nath Mahata from Gopiballavpur in Jhargram joined the BJP on Wednesday evening, hours before the constituency goes to polls. Mahata, a doctor, was denied a ticket by Trinamool for the 2026 elections.“The party has broken the trust of the people in Jangalmahal. No decent neta can survive in it. I had…
Kolkata: An 85-year-old voter who conscientiously voted in all previous elections was denied the opportunity to do so on technical grounds on Wednesday despite her name being there on the voter list. Anuradha Dasgupta, who lives in Bansdroni under the Tollygunge assembly constituency, went to the polling booth at Khanpur Primary School for Boys around…
Mumbai: A special POCSO court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 28-year-old man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for the sexual assault of a four-year-old girl in his neighbourhood during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Among the witnesses cited by special public prosecutor Geeta Malankar were the child and her mother. The victim’s mother deposed…
Ghaziabad: Caught selling adulterated paneer in 2021, Vishal Singhal, the owner of Jai Durga Dairy in Ghaziabad, was handed a Rs 5,000 fine. Singhal pleaded guilty in court and requested minimum punishment. The additional chief judicial magistrate court said Singhal would be sent to jail for 30 days if he failed to submit the fine…
MUMBAI: For a city that lives by the sea, the warning could not be closer to home. A new global commission announced by The Lancet has flagged sea-level rise as not just an environmental concern but a growing public health and equity crisis—one that could reshape life across coastal cities like Mumbai and India’s vast…
CHENNAI: The last leg of the election campaign in Tamil Nadu heated up on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi flying down to make divergent pitches.While Modi attacked the “first family” and “scams”, Rahul stuck to TN chief minister M K Stalin’s narrative of BJP being the destructor of Tamil…
Hyderabad: Bachupally police arrested a woman and her lover for abetting the suicide of her husband. The arrests took place on April 21, but the case only came to light on Thursday when a family member of the deceased brought it to the attention of the media.The accused are a 30-year-old housewife from Bachupally and…
Google Maps is updating its Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) API to improve direction accuracy in busy areas. The update combines gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer data, reducing magnetic interference and benefiting Google Maps and third-party apps on Android 5.0 or above. We keep hearing about Google Maps fiasco from across the globe where it directed people…
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta addresses a press conference on Women’s reservation bill, at the BJP Delhi office in New Delhi TNNNew Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta criticised the Opposition on Sunday for defeating the Constitution amendment brought by central BJP govt to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023.The act promises 33% reservation for women…
NEW DELHI: On April 6, 2026, the President of India gave assent to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026–No. 6 of 2026–and the legislation was published in the Gazette of India. A decade after the original IBC was enacted in 2016, Parliament has approved what practitioners call the most comprehensive rewrite of the…
